A DAY of strike action by BBC workers saw programmes disrupted at Radio York as staff came out in support of colleagues whose jobs are under threat.
About 12 members of staff spent the morning outside the studio in Bootham in protest of BBC plans to make programme cuts nationally.
Katy Wright, the head of the Radio York chapel of the National Union of Journalists, said: “NUJ members at the BBC have chosen to take industrial action over compulsory redundancies being made right now. “These redundancies are unfair and unnecessary, and they signal the start of wider cuts that will irreparably damage the BBC.”
A spokesman for the corporation apologised for any disruption to BBC services and said it was disappointed that the NUJ had gone ahead with the action.
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